Unprecedented and accelerating change characterize the global scene, whether it concerns the climate or the persistent, and growing, inequalities. Even though humankind has never been more prosperous, social and political turmoil challenges humans to build for themselves a better future. Despite these bleak and gloomy prospects, creativity and resilience, and the ability to collaborate, innovate, and design, continue to amaze us.
Social and cultural anthropologist with regional expertise in Asia (open rank)
The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology welcomes submissions for a new professorship in social and cultural anthropology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven. KU Leuven represents a leading academic institution in Europe that is the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure. The university’s mission is to provide excellence in academic education and research and to offer a distinguished service to society. Owing to KU Leuven’s cutting-edge research, KU Leuven is a charter member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and is consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in Europe.
Within KU Leuven, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology conducts state of the art anthropological research on questions as varied as urbanity, superdiversity, religion, mobility etc. The research projects are organized around three thematic clusters: making, living and moving around the world (MaLiMo). Our department is committed to long-term ethnographic research to gain an in-depth understanding of how individuals and groups organize their lives, relate to pasts, and prefigure futures; to the highest ethical standards of our discipline; and to Open Science. While several staff members hold a long-standing expertise on Africa, the current appointment of an anthropologist of Asia (any regional specialty) fits in a strategy to expand the regional focus of our department.
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